Summary of Social Workers

I’m a student from Ahuntsic College, I’m actually in youth and adult correctional intervention program, which is to support supervise and help some people with a deviant behavior whether youth or adult. In Canada, especially in Montreal QC, when you get your diploma from this program you can choose to work with kids in youth center or with adult in jail and many other places. Studying for youth and adult correctional intervention can also be closely related to social worker, both have the same bases. 

The work of those people is to support people in need, in moral and physical types of ways. They help people with a lot of variety of problems, related to human right, for example. Everyone can help others but the difference is that for social workers they get paid for something valuable for everyone. They refer their clients in many organizations, but it’s important to the client to trust their social worker otherwise those families in need lose interest to get helped. In fact, over 1/3 of those families decided not to attend to their appointments. Sometimes those cases can cause a big loss of energy for the social worker creating a bigger investment from them and not from the clients. Social workers want to help all the problems of these individuals at the same time, that create a high level of stress they have to resolved their problems one step at the time. 

In general, social workers need to have a Bachelor’s degree or something equivalent to social science. The higher you want to get in this job, the higher education is required. The most important fact to become a social worker, is to have a good approach with individual and a good knowledge of sociology. 

For those new social workers, they are more likely to get a successful job because they are hired to implement the programs services and they are several programs available to help their clients. They are creating new jobs by working outside of rural sectors. The fact that they got a good training from college and experience in social field give them better job opportunities. Which makes the job harder is that the Government make a lot of cut reducing accessibility to programs for the clients.

When they first started they can love or get to stress out by this job, some workers get to emotional and quit their job after some years of exhausting work because they want to help a lot of people but it’s unrealistic. For those who stay in this field tend to get more specialize and will be upgraded by the years having more people in theirs case load and having more responsibility in this job.

References:

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